new release Archive
07 Jul 2015
Album Review: Yes — Like It Is: Live at the Mesa Arts Center
2015 sees the release not only of Yes‘ Progeny recordings, but another live set, Like It Is: Live at the Mesa Arts Center. The latter was recorded in the summer […]
06 Jul 2015
Album Review: Yes — Progeny: Seven From Seventy-Two
It was just a bit more than three years ago today that I got the opportunity to speak with Chris Squire of Yes. Though he was never put forth as […]
30 Jun 2015
Album Review: Todd Rundgren — Global
In one sense, the best artists are those who confound their fans. There’s certainly a place for the reliable musical act that releases pretty much the same album over and […]
26 Jun 2015
Rising Appalachia: Making Music with Intention (Part 3)
Continued from Part Three… Leah Song relates that Rising Appalachia have many friends around the country who are involved in art and creative projects. “Many of them,” she notes, “end […]
25 Jun 2015
Rising Appalachia: Making Music with Intention (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… In those years, music as a professional pursuit was never a goal. Leah Song says that even when she and sister Chloe Smith did begin making […]
24 Jun 2015
Rising Appalachia: Making Music with Intention (Part 1)
Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith lead Rising Appalachia, a renowned folk/world music group whose music is as intriguing as it is hard to classify. Their eighth album, Wider Circles, […]
23 Jun 2015
Album Review: Little Richard — Directly From My Heart
For music lovers of a certain age range, the work of Richard Penniman is the sort of music that one might only rarely make an effort to hear. The name […]
22 Jun 2015
Album Reviews: Four from The Residents
Though they initially submitted demo recordings to major record labels (the bootleg The Warner Brothers Tapes documents the most notorious of these), the inscrutable collective that once jokingly billed themselves […]
19 Jun 2015
Album Review: stephaniesĭd – Excavator
It’s rare that I review the music of artists based in my adopted hometown of Asheville NC. My reason is simple: I gotta live in this town. I feel it […]
17 Jun 2015
Album Review: The Orange Peels — Begin the Begone
On Begin the Begone, the sixth album from northern California pop group The Orange Peels, the group continues to redefine its stylistic parameters while still crafting that winning ear-candy pop […]